Ella Preger 🎗️

Distinct mechanisms decommission redundant enhancers to facilitate phenotypic evolution The evolutionary loss of morphological traits is often driven by changes in gene regulation. Many developmental genes are controlled by multiple, redundant enhancers, raising the question of how robus...

Check out our new preprint on the evolution of enhancer loss. Turns out there are 50 ways to lose a function. We found four of them.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@poppi62.bsky.social opens the #EMBO Drosophila Genetics & Genomics course at #EMBL - off to a fantastic start! Looking forward to an exciting and inspiring week!

Just one more week left to apply for the EMBO Drosophila Genetics and Genomics Course! Don't miss the chance to join an exciting program of cutting-edge research and hands-on training!

Yehu Moran

It was a pleasure to host the awesome @yehumoran.bsky.social in our Developmental Genetics Club and learn about toxins and their role in modulating complex predation interactions!

Fun day visiting old friends at the Weizmann Institute

We are excited to announce the opening of registrations for the upcoming #EDRC2025 conference (25th-28th September 2025) in Alicante to showcase the latest advances in #Drosophila biology and technology edrc2025alicante.com

Drosophila genetics and genomics

Apply to "Drosophila genetics and genomics": experienced experts will teach you hands-on in classical strategies and cutting-edge experimental techniques to enhance your use of this powerful model organism for research, whilst connecting to scientists in your field.

www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Join us this summer at EMBL for the Drosophila Genetics and Genomics Practical Course! Applications are now open—don’t miss this chance to expand your Drosophila toolkit. #Drosophila #Genetics #Genomics

Are you interested in studying enhancer biology/3D genome organization in my lab at the University of Tokyo? This Biohub Network program would be a great opportunity for you! Feel free to reach out if you're interested!!
www.czbiohub.org/program-ssfc...

Now official: our next
@embl.org
course on #Drosophila
Genetics & Genomics will be held 3-8 Aug '25. Send in your applications!
@bsdb.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social
@flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @virtualflybrain.bsky.social

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תלוי איזה צבע 🙃

Nigel Groome Studentship: Gene Regulatory Networks Driving Male-Female Genital Co-evolution at Oxford Brookes University Discover a PhD Studentship: Nigel Groome Studentship: Gene Regulatory Networks Driving Male-Female Genital Co-evolution Explore more PhD opportunities and apply today!

My colleague Dani Nunes and I are advertising a PhD position at Oxford Brookes. If you're interested in the molecular basis of evolution, gene regulation, sc-seq, CRISPR, and (yes) genital morphology (in flies), check it out: tinyurl.com/2zutha8c #STEMjobs 🧪

We are seeking a motivated postdoc to join our lab!  Our research focuses on live-cell imaging/analysis to reveal how chromatin behaves in living cells and how its behavior contributes to cellular functions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Interested? Please DM me!

Molecular and genetic characterization of sex-linked orange coat color in the domestic cat The Sex-linked orange mutation in domestic cats causes variegated patches of reddish/yellow hair and is a defining signature of random X-inactivation in female tortoiseshell and calico cats. Unlike th...

Fellow Genetics professors - rejoice! This is pedagogy heaven: the paradigmatic epiallele in calico cats … is built on a cis-regulatory deletion, not a coding mutation!
We can teach it all off 1 paper!
1. Woo
2. Hoooo!!!
H/t @lianafaye.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Developmental evolution in fast-forward: insect male genital diversification Insect male genitalia are among the fastest evolving structures of animals. Studying these changes among closely related species represents a powerful approach to dissect developmental processes and g...

New review on the evolution of insect male terminalia I wrote with Daniela Nunes: www.cell.com/trends/genet...

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We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:

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#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

תודה!

ברור, אבל הוא (או מישהו אחר) יכול להציע הצעה שלא ניתן לסרב לה. בשורה התחתונה השאלה היא האם הם הקימו את החברה כעסק או מתוך אידאולוגיה. סביר שהראשון

Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.

A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter

mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

זה מדאיג בגלל האפשרות שמאסק יקנה אותם רק כדי לסגור את הפלטפורמה או משהו בסגנון...

תודה! את יכולה לספר משהו על המודל העסקי שלהם? איפה הרווח?

Only close to 10 months to go until #EDRC2025 ! Here are the plenary speakers who look forward to welcoming you! #Drosophila #EDRC

It's my great pleasure to present the next big preprint from SheqLab! An exciting application of our O-MAP platform that I hope will transform the study of nuclear architecture.
If you've ever wanted to dissect the subnuclear "neighborhood" around an individual locus, read on! (1/30)

Thanks!

Would love to know who I'm missing here. Only have 42/150 filled. For insect molecular folks, and I know there are lots of us, here's a Starter Pack!

Also see my Insect Genetics and Mol Bio #Feed. I think I've found a nice set of hashtags now :)

#SymbioSky #Drosophiila #Insect
go.bsky.app/4EuqSbc

Thank you for this! Can you please add me?

Recommendations for who to include in this starter pack (including yourself!) are welcome!
go.bsky.app/31tXVEC

I've been away from science twitter for so long, I forgot how fun it is, and now with science bluesky it's even better!

Thanks!